David Eagleman: Your Time-Bending Brain

Your life’s memories could, in principle, be stored in the universe’s structure.

The volcano’s historic eruption preserved an ancient library, but rendered its content illegible. A public competition aims to change that.

It’s not just fun: DNA origami has the potential to revolutionize engineering at the nanoscopic scale.

The essential element needed for innovation is creative dissonance — and the keys to unlocking it were forged by bankers in Italy.

Consciousness isn’t just a problem for philosophers. On this episode of Dispatches, Kmele sat down with scientists, a mathematician, a spiritual leader, and an entrepreneur, all trying to get to the heart of “the feeling of life itself.”